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Colonial British Army – Highland infantry advancing

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FOUR GREAT AFRICAN COLONIAL ADVENTURES IN FILM

 

·         THE FOUR FEATHERS. The Four Feathers is a 1939 British Technicolor adventure film directed by Zoltan Korda, starring John Clements, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez, and C. Aubrey Smith. It is widely regarded as the best of the numerous film adaptations of the 1902 novel of the same name by A.E.W. Mason (1895). It was mostly filmed on location in the Sudan in Technicolor. Forty soldiers of the 1st Battalion the East Surrey Regiment were used in period uniforms for scenes in which they withstood the Dervish advance.


·         SANDERS OF THE RIVER. Sanders of the River is a 1935 British film directed by Zoltán Korda, based on the stories of Edgar Wallace. It is set in British Nigeria. The lead Nigerian characters were played by African-Americans Paul Robeson and Nina Mae McKinney. The film proved a significant commercial and critical success, giving Korda the first of his four nominations for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival.


·         ZULU. Zulu is a 1964 British epic war film depicting the Battle of Rorke's Drift between the British Army and the Zulus in January 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War. The film was directed by American screenwriter Cy Endfield and produced by Stanley Baker and Endfield, with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer. The film was first shown on the 85th anniversary of the actual battle, 22 January 1964, at the Plaza Theatre, London.


·         KHARTOUM. Khartoum is a 1966 film written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Basil Dearden. It stars Charlton Heston as British Gen. Charles "Chinese" Gordon and Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi (Muhammad Ahmed), with a supporting cast that includes Richard Johnson and Ralph Richardson. The film is based on historical accounts of Gordon's defence of the Sudanese city of Khartoum from the forces of the Mahdist army, during the Siege of Khartoum. The opening and closing are narrated by Leo Genn.


Jacklex Miniatures Colonial Nineteenth Century 20mm metal wargame figures.